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Deanna Paul / Wall Street Journal:
Alvin Bragg Wins Democratic Nod for Manhattan District Attorney  —  Runner-up Tali Farhadian Weinstein concedes the race  —  Alvin Bragg is on the cusp of becoming the first Black Manhattan district attorney after his top rival, Tali Farhadian Weinstein, conceded the race Friday …
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Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:
Bragg Set to Be Manhattan's Next D.A., and a Potential Trump Scourge  —  With his main rival, Tali Farhadian Weinstein, conceding, Alvin Bragg is poised to lead the investigation into Donald J. Trump's family business.  —  Alvin Bragg, a career prosecutor with experience taking on white-collar crime …
Jennifer Taub / Washington Monthly:
How to Understand the Trump Tax Indictment
Dan McLaughlin / New York Post:
Cy Vance's Trump case is straight from a banana republic — punish your political enemies
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:   Weisselberg indictment creates new questions about Trump kids' hidden compensation: John Heilemann
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
GOP divided on anti-Biden midterm message
Discussion: Documented and Political Wire
Devoun Cetoute / Miami Herald:
North Miami Beach condo ordered to close, evacuate after inspection said structurally unsafe  —  The city of North Miami Beach has ordered that Crestview Towers Condominium be immediately closed and evacuated Friday evening after a building inspection report found it to have unsafe structural …
CNN:
Trump's Hill allies could be ensnared in January 6 probe as GOP preps strategy  —  (CNN)House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has asserted he'd “have no problem talking to anybody” about his conversations with then-President Donald Trump on January 6.  That proposition may soon be put to the test.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Nancy Pelosi has backed Kevin McCarthy into a corner  —  As the Jan. 6 select committee gears up, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy faces a thorny dilemma.  Treating the effort to violently overthrow the U.S. constitutional order as an extremely weighty matter worthy of serious investigation …
William Saletan / Slate:
Trump Is Working Harder Than Ever to Undermine Democracy  —  On Wednesday, two dozen House Republicans flocked to Texas to show their support for Donald Trump.  They joined the state's Republican governor, Greg Abbott, in applauding the former president as he toured the border …
Discussion: RedState and The Bulwark
Hayes Brown / MSNBC:
Sha'Carri Richardson's drug test suspension is the end result of racist policies … Sha'Carri Richardson should have been spending the next month preparing to win the Olympic gold medal in the 100-meter dash.  She had a shot after blazing through the event's qualifying race last month in under 11 seconds.
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Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
As Afghan Forces Crumble, an Air of Unreality Grips the Capital  —  With the Taliban advancing and U.S. troops leaving, President Ashraf Ghani and his aides have become increasingly insular, and Kabul is slipping into shock.  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — With his military crumbling …
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Washington Post:
Biden's cold response to Afghanistan's collapse will have far-reaching consequences
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
U.S. Leaves Its Last Afghan Base, Effectively Ending Operations
Kate Aronoff / New Republic:
The Biden White House Has an Exxon Problem  —  In a blockbuster report from Greenpeace journalistic arm Unearthed this week, top Exxon lobbyist Keith McCoy all but claimed credit for helping excise climate policies from the Biden administration's much-hyped infrastructure package.
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ARLnow.com:
BREAKING: NWS Confirms Tornado Ripped Through North Arlington Neighborhoods  —  (Updated at 9:30 p.m.) The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado caused the widespread damage seen in several North Arlington neighborhoods today.  —  The tornado struck around 9 p.m. Thursday night …
Kevin Collier / NBC News:
Ransomware attack on software manager hits 200 companies  —  A successful ransomware attack on a single company has spread to at least 200 organizations, according to cybersecurity firm Huntress Labs, making it one of the single largest criminal ransomware sprees in history.
Amy Graff / SFGATE:
710,117 lightning strikes hit western Canada in 15 hours  —  Van Ness is a mess and it's hurting businesses  —  This small town is California's ‘adult Disneyland’  —  Disneyland should permanently remove this massive perk  —  Salt Fire near Redding explodes, destroys homes
Stephen Fowler / NPR:
How Pro-Trump Local News Sites Keep Pushing 2020 Election Misinformation  —  If you don't follow politics in Georgia closely — or even if you do — you might be forgiven for not knowing much about The Georgia Star News.  —  Founded just after the November election when President Biden narrowly flipped …
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Bloomberg:
Biden Picks University of Pennsylvania Leader as Germany Envoy  — Biden to nominate university president Gutmann for ambassador  — President also names picks for ambassadors of Kosovo, Ghana  —  President Joe Biden intends to nominate University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann …
Discussion: Twitchy
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Democracy Docket:
Professors and Students Sue Over Florida's New College Survey Law  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today individual professors and students of Florida's public colleges and universities filed a lawsuit against the Florida Commissioner of Education and other higher education officials challenging …
Washington Post:
Andy Harris, Maryland's only Republican in Congress, fears being written off the map.  Some say it could happen.  —  Ten years ago, as Maryland Democrats sat down to redraw the state's eight congressional districts, they considered making Republican members of Congress go extinct.
Shanti Escalante-De Mattei / ARTnews.com:
U.S. House Votes to Remove Confederate Statues from the Capitol  —  On June 29th, the House of Representatives voted to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol building. … Last July, a similar bill passed through the House, but not in the Senate, which had a GOP majority at the time.
Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
Latest alleged Oath Keeper arrested in Capitol riot turned over body armor and firearm  —  A previous version of this article incorrectly reported the day David Moerschel was charged, his alleged username in an encrypted messaging group and Mark Grods's age.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Crime Report
Bari Weiss / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
Winston Marshall Was ‘Bloody Terrified’ to Quit Mumford & Sons.  He Tells Me Why.  —  The musician talks about self-censorship, his faith, moral courage, Jordan Peterson, Kanye West, Winston Churchill, and more.  —  2 hr ago  —  Late last week, I was sitting in my kitchen when I read an essay that made me stand up and cheer.
Discussion: RedState, Breitbart and Fox News
Axios:
Biden aide charges “sabotage” of Harris  —  Top White House officials are mobilizing to defend Vice President Kamala Harris amid a gusher of leaks about dysfunction and infighting in her office.  —  Driving the news: White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain told Axios in a statement …
John DiStaso / WMUR:
New Hampshire Supreme Court strikes down 2017 voter registration law Senate Bill 3 as unconstitutional  —  In unanimous, 4-0, decision, state's highest court upholds lower court ruling, says law ‘imposes unreasonable burdens on the right to vote’  —  Hide Transcript Show Transcript
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Progressives distance from Bernie Sanders  —  The progressive movement is in a new phase and activists say they've changed the conversation on key issues.
Discussion: Townhall and HotAir
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Biden calls top donor NEA 'one of America's indispensable organizations'  —  Biden told members of the teachers union, ‘You deserve a raise’  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for July 2  —  President Biden said Friday that the National Education Association, among the very most generous donors …
 
 
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Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
Campaigns Keep Close Watch on Count That Will Decide N.Y.C. Mayor's Race
Brooke Masters / Financial Times:
How Britain's private schools lost their grip on Oxbridge
Foreign Policy:
Study Finds Nearly 1 in 3 U.S. Diplomats Eyeing the Exit Door
J.P. Lawrence / Stars & Stripes:
Soldiers watch the US withdrawal from Bagram Airfield through the lens of Pokemon Go
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Kelsey Penrose / Carson Now:
Lyon commissioners vote to begin process to rename Old Dayton Valley Road ‘Pres. Trump Way’
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